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Article: Madness as Method (Crazy Dick Goes to Iran)

From the October 24, 2007, New York Times:

Madness as Method
By MAUREEN DOWD

Dick Cheney’s craziness used to influence foreign policy.

Now it is foreign policy.

bush's Amerika: Religious Fanatics Only Care About a Single Issue

The Values Test
By JAMES C. DOBSON
Published: October 4, 2007
Colorado Springs, Colo.

REPORTS have surfaced in the press about a meeting that occurred last Saturday in Salt Lake City involving more than 50 pro-family leaders. The purpose of the gathering was to discuss our response if both the Democratic and Republican Parties nominate standard-bearers who are supportive of abortion. Although I was neither the convener nor the moderator of the meeting, I’d like to offer several brief clarifications about its outcome and implications.

After two hours of deliberation, we voted on a resolution that can be summarized as follows: If neither of the two major political parties nominates an individual who pledges himself or herself to the sanctity of human life, we will join others in voting for a minor-party candidate. Those agreeing with the proposition were invited to stand...

Article and Call for Comments: A Scandal-Scarred G.O.P. Asks, ‘What Next?’

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America's Republican Party: Hypocritical, out of touch, and pitiful laughingstock all rolled into one. That list of descriptive words is just for starters. Feel free to add to the list in the comments section of this post. Also please contribute your ideas for the new official Republican Party slogan. And don't forget to vote for the one word that best describes George Bush (use the poll I set up in the left hand column of this blog). Click through to read the article. Cheers!

EDITORIAL OBSERVER; Just What the Founders Feared: An Imperial President Goes to War

From the July 23, 2007, New York Times:
By ADAM COHEN

The nation is heading toward a constitutional showdown over the Iraq war. Congress is moving closer to passing a bill to limit or end the war, but President Bush insists Congress doesn't have the power to do it. ''I don't think Congress ought to be running the war,'' he said at a recent press conference. ''I think they ought to be funding the troops.'' He added magnanimously: ''I'm certainly interested in their opinion.''

The war is hardly the only area where the Bush administration is trying to expand its powers beyond all legal justification. But the danger of an imperial presidency is particularly great when a president takes the nation to war, something the founders understood well. In the looming showdown, the founders and the Constitution are firmly on Congress's side.

Article: Rove's Dismal Legacy

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By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Monday, August 13, 2007; 1:54 PM

Karl Rove's legacy will not be what he wanted it to be.

The political guru who made President Bush what he is today had hoped to leave behind a permanent Republican ruling majority. Instead, his tenure will stand as an example of how divisiveness and partisanship are not conducive to successful governance.

After years of being lauded as a political genius, Rove nevertheless leaves his party in worse shape than he found it, with his boss profoundly discredited in the eyes of the American people.

When historians look back at Bush's squandered opportunity to unite the country and even the world behind a shared agenda after 9/11, part of the blame will go to Vice President Cheney and the decision to invade Iraq. But part will accrue to Rove for choosing to use national security as a wedge issue.

Why Did He Resign?

Return of the Swift Boat Idiots

From the March 2, 2007, LA Times:

The lunatic right returns
Bad news for Republicans: Leading conservatives are embracing former Swift Boaters.
By Rosa Brooks

IF YOU HATED IT the first time, you might like the sequel better.

Remember Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, the right-wing goon squad whose defamatory insinuations helped sink John Kerry's presidential campaign? They're back! This afternoon, key Swift boaters George "Bud" Day, Mary Jane McManus and Carlton Sherwood are holding a little reunion, in the guise of a panel discussion at the American Conservative Union's annual Conservative Political Action Conference. The panel topic? "The Left's Repeated Campaign Against the American Soldier."

Top 30 Bush T-Shirt Sightings

1) (On an infant's shirt): Already smarter than Bush.

2) 1/20/09: End of an Error

3) That's OK, I Wasn't Using My Civil Liberties Anyway

4) Let's Fix Democracy in This Country First

5) Bush. Like a Rock. Only Dumber.

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Personal Update

Just a quick note to explain why I haven’t been posting so much recently and why that is going to continue for an unknown time period: It's because I am working on a potentially promising entertainment and social networking hub called BuzzPal.com: The World Is Your Party.

Bush's Version of Democracy

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